project: AlumaxX (Dutch champion casemodding 2006! )

God damn, this case is really cool! I cant express my feelings to this project, looks awesome!

Like that logo and your tube work, and all the stealthing!
I looked over the whole log, and noticed that you have some really expensive ****, how can you afford this?

Dj Ovin

 

I have been lurking around these forums for years and dont post often, but this is my new favourite case of all time. Keep up the good work

 

One of my fav projects. Keep up the good work!

 

can we have some more photos? I cant help lying in suspence...

 

Problem with the pumps is solved. Eheim gave me two new O-rings for free. Thanks guys. First loop is filled now with water. Had some help from a little friend

 

haha cool!

 

This reminds me of the time we found a dead bird, and some birdshit on our server (yeah it was laying around for a while...). The serverroom at that location had only 1 way in that was open, the ventillation shaft...

well anyway, it all looks nice and tight, good news you got your system going

 

Today I started soldering the relais, this relais makes the two PSU's start up almost simultaniously. Soldering the wires from the first PSU to the relais.



And here the PS_on and a black wire from the second PSU.



If nothing goes wrong today I hope to be able to fire up the system for the first time today. Only will have to place a couple of temperature sensors and solder the leds from the reservoirs in.

 

b a bugger if your mobo was DOA , all that water cooling would take ages to rip out, but lets all corss our fingers and hope it aint. This project is reaslly nice bud, and i think you may win the worklog competition cuz of it

Phl

 

PRAGTIG Man!!!! one of the best MODS I have seen!!!!

 

Looking really nice!!
One question: That Board with all Led connections, how do u power that up?!?
Going to be many cables if u going to use a Molex supply?!

 

J-chill I use two seperate waterloops.

The board with connections gets its power from just one molex. I split the power with four switches. One wire from every switch to one seperate group on the board. I made four groups so I can turn of and 4 groups of leds.

Almost right Hellboy787 prachtig Thanks Hellboy787

A bit late, but today I send a photo to A.C. Ryan for the worklog contest, the gallery. This one.

 

Your so-close Franklin. It's a bit "nerve-racking" just prior to firing-up a machine you have put soo many man hours into (with excellent results, I might add). Best of luck. I hope all goes well..

 

yummi ! you have given me so much ideas for my first mod! very-very nice case.
im considering that i might buy an Lian-Li case too

 

Sorry no pictures yet. I didn't test the motherboard before I installed it because that was somewhat difficult with the watercooled PSU's, but now I wished I had done so. I encountered a problem that is not unique for the ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe. No bootup at all, only the green powerup led lights up, but nothing more, no beep, nothing. I tried everything. Other PSU, one DIMM and everything you could possibly do, but nothing. I hope to get a new motherboard this week.

Didn''t waste time though, cause I started working on my next project. Will start a worklog in about 2 months. First get this damn thing to work.

 

man that sucks, i always test hardware first, you have been working on the project for so long, can you not RMA?

 

I suppose you have tested the cpu seprately? a few fx-55s were known to come doa.

 

I don't have another board that fits the FX-55, but I'm quite sure it is the ASUS board. It just doesn't post, a problem that occurs quite often with the A8N-SLI. Seen so many people on different fora with the same problem. Tomorrow I will have the replacement ( not the Deluxe but the Premium )so I can get on with AlumaxX.

I can test the new board with a PSU I already bought for my next mod I will start building the next case ( building it from scratch ) when I've finished the room that will be my "modroom". No modding in the kitchen anymore.

 

Does it post at all?

I had a similar problem with my A8N-SLI Deluxe when it was new; I had to iterate half a dozen times with reset switch to have it boot, cold or warm. I flashed BIOS when new ones came out and even rebuilt the whole machine with minimal parts to the table, out from the chassis. Didn't help. I took it to warranty service, they tested and said "works fine", and indeed, from that on it has worked fine . And yes, exactly the same board..

 

to heavy for me...

but a damm god project

many, many details... that´s nice